american artist
Nancy Wait
Watercolor
“Seasons of Women” Watercolor on Paper, Size 30x40” (1987) I wanted to represent how we have viewed the
female form in art through different periods of history, from ancient to modern, using a flowing pattern of curving
lines. I began with Persephone on the upper left. She is a modern Persephone, self-involved, floating above
the surface, ignorant and out of time with the legions of women who have gone before her. The figures in the
main section of the painting were taken from art history books and mostly refer to primitive art or sculptures
from Ancient Greece. The head on the lower right is based on the 4,000 year old Warka Mask from Uruk, also
known as the Lady of Warka and the Sumarian Mona Lisa. I used a palette of earth colors except for the sky
above, to signify this is art from the past, from different layers of time.